Clarion 1970-03-13 Vol 45 No 20

In Chapel on Thursday will be Sister Giovanni, director of
the Guadalupe Area Project. The project attempts to aid
Mexican Americans in preserving and assimilating their
cultural heritage.
Senate posts to be filled,
students vote today to
determine candidates
Committees challenge
traditions and purposes;
seek major revisions
Vol. XLV — No. 20 Bethel College, St. Pau l, Minnesota
If adopted, the budget proposals
being presented to the Senate this
week indicate several m a j or
changes for next year.
Two Senate Special Committees
were established to examine the
budgetary needs of the Bethel Col-lege
Student Association. The re-ports
of the two committees were
presented Wednesday evening for
discussion and action.
One committee report is asking
for the discontinuance of the Spire,
the incorporation of Coeval and
Clarion, the end of homecoming as
a student function, the removal of
the Academic Committee and the
Religious Committee, and placing
the Cultural Committee under the
Social Committee. This committee
composed of A. Dean Pearson,
Linda Sparks, Tom Ford and Don
Dewey, would then like to see the
monies now being spent on these
areas put into the General Fund of
the Association.
The second committee, Karen
Nelson, Jim Carlson, and Wendell
Wahlin, would like to see the ex-pansion
of Homecoming, the in-corporation
of Coeval and Spire
and the combining of the Academic
Committee and the Cultural Com-mittee.
Both of these groups would like
The ballot boxes have once a-gain
been dusted off as the stu-dent
body prepares to elect next
year's president, vice-president and
senators.
Petitions for the offices have
been signed and turned in to
the Election Board. These peti-tions
have been checked by that
Board to be sure the filing candi-rate
has met the requirements as
stated in the election Code. This
code states that 60 signatures must
be obtained by the individual
seeking office, (one petition had
120 signatures instead of this re-quired
number); the petitions must
be in to the committee by the
specified time, (some were in ear-ly);
and the potential candidate
must have a 2.0 grade point av-erage,
(four individuals were eli-minated
from the ballot by this
requirement).
The candidates going into the
primary election today were as
follows:
to see WBCS removed from the
Senate budget.
The first committee reasons that
"the disappearance of the tradi-tional
year book from college and
university campuses is an increas-ing
occurance." They go on to say
in their report that "student in-terest
in the year book is limited
and passing. The Spire serves tra-dition
rather than function."
The second committee would
like to see the budget expanded for
the Spire thus giving them the
necessary funds to work with in
making the yearbook something to
be proud of. Also, by including
the Coeval into the Spire, as this
committee is proposing, "it would
enhance the book to become a col-lection
of good photography and
good literature".
In regard to Homecoming the
first committee r e p or t read,
"Homecoming does not serve a
purpose for the Student Associa-tion.
Homecoming is a program
geared toward Alumni and the re-sponsibility
for the program should
rest entirely with the Alumni Of-fice."
The second committee has pro-posed
an expansion of the Home-coming
weekend so as to make it
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President: Elden John Elseth
John Goodman
Richard Berggren
Vice President: Hugh McLeod
Thomas Ford
Douglas Erickson
Wendell Wahlin
Senator-at-Large: Steve Gabel
(need 2)
Kris McElroy
Byron Warkentien
Gabriel Ofotokun
Class of '71: Sue Neave
(need 1)
Class of '72: Darlene Chaddock
(need 2)
Roderick Mark Steward
Rob Grabenkort
Ronald Wayne Dishinger I
Class of '73: Ron Troxel
(need 3)
Some of these candidates will
be eliminated in the primary elec-tion
held today. The remaining
candidates for President and Vice-
President will be introduced in
Chapel on Wednesday, March 18.
The election will be held on Thurs-day,
March 19.
John D. Goodman
"I believe in Bethel. It's been
good for me to be here. Bethel
needs academic excellence and the
integration of a Christian perspec-tive
into the total educational ex-perience.
Further, Bethel needs
freedom, to dissent, to find ones-self
and to achieve a personal
faith. Let's work to maintain and
build toward these three ideals.
If we overly accent the negative
we might fail to see that some of
the answers lie in the positive
aspects around us.
"Education is cyclic. We re-ceive
proportionately to what we
put in. I believe most Bethel stu-dents
want to put in, to communi-cate,
understand, unify, learn, to
grow in Christ. I want to help us
do it. Basically, I want to put in.
But the beauty of Bethel lies in
its people, not any individual. To-gether
through God's power we
can succeed."
John Goodman
John is a junior from San Jose,
California. He has served on the
Convocation Committee, the So-cial
Committee for 3 years and as
chairman of that Committee this
year, and Vice President for the
Junior Class.
Richard A. Berggren
"If there is anything I have
learned in fourteen years of edu-cational
experience, it is that the
bulk of meaningful learning does
not occur inside the textbook. You
must learn by becoming involved
with people and only when edu-cation
relates to this does it be-come
valuable.
As a candidate for president,
I want this type of involvement.
I run for the office not because
I am perfect but because I need
to improve. I need people, because
people is really what Bethel is all
about.
"Briefly, some of my idealistic
goals for next year include: a
greater emphasis on cultural and
social activities in an effort to
involve more students — the be-ginning
of an athletic scholarship
program — a more equitable sit-uation
between the college and
seminary financial arrangement —
a revision of the structure of the
Student Association — an empha-sis
on "learning through experi-ence"
in curriculum — and most
important, an attempt to mold our
lives into the revolutionary spirit
of Christ."
Elden Elseth
Elden is a junior from Warren,
Minnesota serving in the Senate
this year as a Senator-at-Large.
He has been involved in intercol-legiate
debate and forensics and
served as the Vice-President of
the Student Body at Covenant Bi-ble
College, Prince Albert, Sas-katchewan.
Elden J. Elseth
"In my platform, I am empha-sizing
four areas. Some are of im-mediate
concern and others are
of long range emphasis. But all
are important. First, I stand fully
behind the push for minority re-cruitment
here at Bethel. But still
more must be done. We as students
must rally together as a whole
in demanding that action is taken
by the administration in this area.
We must convince the Administra-tion
that this isn't just a passing
whim of the moment.
"Another area of concern is
New Campus Planning. Construc-tion
on the new campus begins
next spring or the following year.
Final housing plans must be pre-sented
this spring. We as students
must have a voice in the type of
housing that will be available to
the future students of Bethel.
"We also need a revived inter-est
in athletics at Bethel. I be-lieve
that the Bethel athlete is
presently penalized. He is penal-ized
from the standpoint of re-muneration,
not to mention the
facilities. A future goal is athletic
scholarships of which I will take
steps to achieve.
"Finally, we are all aware of
the problem of loneliness that ex-ists
on this campus. Perhaps there
is no lonelier time than during the
week-end. I propose a greater
quantity of "things to do."
"It is for these reasons — an
enlarged push for minority re-cruitment,
a final say in new
campus planning, a revived in-terest
in athletics, and a greater
quantity of "things to do," plus
my valuable experience in leader-ship,
that I am running for the
office of President."
Rick Berggren
Rick is a junior from Lafayette,
California. He served his first two
years at Bethel as class officer
and this past year as Vice Presi-dent
of the Student Association.
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The three candidates, Elden Elseth, John Goodman, and Rick
Berggren, were each asked to write a short statement in answer to the
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Page 2 the CLARION Friday, March 13, 1970
Federal judge views free student
voice as great social value
from Minnesota Daily
BOSTON — A federal district judge here has ruled that state
colleges and universities cannot censor student newspapers in advance
of publication, even though the state may help to finance them.
The decision could provide a major new weapon for student editors
who are fighting attempts by college administrators and governing
boards to censor their newspapers.
The ruling came in a suit brought by the editor of the Fitchburg
State College Cycle against the institution's president.
After the Cycle published an article by Black Panther leader
Eldrige Cleaver that contained a number of obscenities, President
James J. Hammond withdrew funds in an effort to prevent the paper
from publishing. He appointed an advisory board of two administraters
to review all materials before publication.
Judge Arthur Garity, Jr. said in his opinion:
"The state in not necessarily the unrestrained master of what
it creates and fosters. Having fostered a campus newspaper, the state
may not propose arbitrary restrictions on the matter to be communicated.
"Because of the potentially great social value of a free student
voice in an age of student awareness, it would be inconsistent with
basic assumptions of First Amendment freedoms to permit a campus
newspaper to be simply a vehicle for ideas the state or the college
administration deems appropriate."
Hammond said he was "amazed" at the decision. The state has
not yet decided whether to appeal. Officials of the U.S. Student
Press Association, a national organization of college newspeper editors,
called the decision "a milestone" and said it would be useful to them
in their efforts against censorship on other campuses.
* * *
This law is applicable only to state schools.
Last December the Bethel Seminary's paper, the Diakrisis, printed
opinions pro and con on the issue of premarital sex. President
Lundquist threatened to suspend publication for 60 days.
State schools are answerable only to the general public. They
receive funds through the oblique channels of the government.
Private schools, however, are supported directly (in whatever
small amount monetarily) by a more select public. This fact should
not give the select public the moral right to dictate what students
think or what opinions to hold. An educational institution, despite
who supports it, is still an educational institution, which should mean
that it is a center for independent learning and thinking.
Campus newspapers are for the campus which is an environment,
in spite of all attempts, that is somewhat unique. It is supposed to
be an environment where students learn how to deal with the problems
they will meet in life. A person cannot "deal with" a problem of which
he is ignorant. Outside readers of student publications must keep
this in mind.
Destruction or frustration of the freedom for independent think-ing
and learning destroys the very purpose of education.
WASHINGTON — (CPS) — On series of questions which might
April 22, actions relating to the include what's happening with
ecological crisis will take place at heavy metals in the air, or sulfur
colleges and in communities a- dioxide, or nitrogen dioxide. That
round the nation. Coordinating leads you inevitably into another
these actions is an organization series of questions about what's
called Environmental Teach-In, going into the water. Suddenly it
Inc.,whose executive director is begins to come home to you that
Denis Hayes, 25, a former student these things aren't aberrations,
body president of Stanford Univ- that they aren't mistakes, that
ersity. Hayes first became involved they're sort of a natural outgrowth
in questions of the environment of an entire system of production
in 1962 while working for the Ec- and are part of an entire style of
ology Institute. Since then he has life of western civilization. As
hitch-hiked around the world, wor- the scope and the size of the dis-ked
for the McCarthy campaign, asters grow, more people have be-and
turned in his draft card. come concerned with them, and
Hayes was interviewed at the Col- out of this, with the help of pro-lege
Editors Conference. phets like Barry Commoner and
CPS: What is the nature of the Paul Erlich, has grown the kind of
ecological crisis, and why have awareness that produces ecolog-people
across the country begun ical action.
to mobilize upon it? CPS: How did the April 22
HAYES: I think it's largely a teach-in begin?
function of the fact things are HAYES: The original inception
getting bad and they are getting came from Senator Gaylord Nel-bad
very rapidly. You begin to find son, who mentioned it a couple
out what's happening with one of times in addresses. There was
small part of the environment, quite a volume of mail in response
such as what's happening with to them. He was on the Today
chlorinated hydrocarbons and that Show, which got him about 1000
leads you inevitably into another letters. It seemed to be responding
Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle,
Tom Ford, Dave Greener,
Jan Ullberg, Jan Urspringer,
Wibby Smith, Ron Roper
Proofreader Sharon Watson
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Business Manager Warren Magnuson
Photographer Phil Humbert
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
Sister Giovanni, director of
the Guadalupe Area project
will speak Thursday, March 19
in Chapel.
ebapel goteg
by Pastor Maurice C. Lawson
Prof. Robert Stein will continue
the current Monday series speak-ing
on the theme, "Universal Re-demption."
Students and faculty
of the foreign language depart-ment
will present the Tuesday
chapel, postponed from a week
ago.
On Wednesday the candidates
for office of student government
will deliver their campaign speech-es.
Sister Giovanni, director of the
Guadalupe Project of St. Paul, a
ministry primarily to Mexican-
Americans, will speak on Thurs-day.
Rev. Warren Magnuson, until
recently pastor of the Central Bap-tist
Church and new executive sec-retary
of the Baptist General Con-ference,
will bring the Friday
message.
to a desire on the part of the coun-try
that some kind of recognition
be given to this whole series of
issues of survival. A group of peo-ple
was rapidly assembled, const-ituting
sort of a policy committee
which was basically just a group
which incorporated itself as a tax-exempt
educational foundation.
The steering committee, which has
three students, three professors,
a couple of politicians and a con-servationist
on it, selected me as
the staff director and I quickly
recruited a group of people — ac-quaintances,
environmentalists,
and movement people from all over
the country, and set up an office
in early January.
CPS: What kind of things are
going to happen April 22.
HAYES: Just an enormous range
of things. One of the features of
our organization has been its utter
decentralization. We haven't been
telling anybody any place what is
their key critical environmental is-sue
or how it should best be dealt
with. What we've been doing in-stead
is telling everybody that
things are bad and they're getting
worse. You'd better start looking
around you and find out who's
most messing up the area you're
living in. Out of that, we feel
there'll be coming some good sol-id
ideas for strategies to counter-act
this whole process of environ-mental
degradation. In a place
such as Omaha, the degree of
political sophistication and phil-osophical
sophistication is appre-ciatively
different from a place
like Berkeley, and the types of is-sues
that will be addressed will
continued on page 3
Can vertebrates survive,
or will earth succumb
to the blue green algae?
by Wayne H. Davis
(CPS) — I hold these truths to be self evident. All living things
are created equal and are interdependent upon one another. All flesh
is grass.
Only plants can make food. Man and all other animals are totally
dependent upon the plants which we so casually push aside in pursuit
of the ever greater megalopolis, multiversity and multishoppicenter.
Animals need their oxygen and the plants our carbon dioxide. Both are
dependent upon numerous species of microbes which make amino
acids and vitamins, digest food, fix nitrogen for our use, and return
it to the air when we die. And all are dependent upon the exceedingly
complex ecosystem of producers and consumers, predators and prey,
herbivores and carnivores, and parasites and disease, to provide for
their needs for survival and to control their numbers. Man cannot
survive alone. Nor can he continue to increase his numbers at the
expense of other living things.
But man is arrogant. He refuses to face reality. Four centuries after
Copernicus he still really believes that the earth is the center of the
universe and that God's only concern is with his welfare. A century
after Darwin man still thinks of himself as apart from nature, with a
divine destiny to conquer nature and exploit the other creatures
for his own use. As the ultimate of arrogance he created God in his
own image.
I used to think that God was in the form of a lovely little animal
like the chipmunk. I'm not sure anymore, because I doubt if the chip-munks
will survive. A common topic when ecologists convene today is
whether the earth will be inherited by insects or blue green algae.
When we first said that the survival of man is doubtful people
thought we were joking. Many now realize we were deadly serious. The
theme "Can Man Survive?" has claimed widespread attention within
the past year. Read about the Washington conference on the subject
sponsored by over 100 members of Congress. The solutions proposed
there by senators, scientists and other citizens for controlling popula-tion,
pollution and waste of resources, are more radical than anything
suggested previously. They proposed, among other things, a national
regulatory agency with control over all population, national restriction
on land use, an ombudsman for the environment with power over every
national activity, nationalization of natural resources so they cannot be
exploited by private businessmen, and the elimination of the U.S. De-partment
of Commerce.
Writing on the prospect of survival in the October issue of the Agri-cultural
Institute Review, Dr. Michael Shaw, Dean of Agriculture, Uni-versity
of British Columbia says: "We must heed the ecologists. We must
(apply) systems ecology to management of agricultural production,"
(his emphasis). Translated, this means, among other things, that
chemical warfare on insects must cease.
I'll go one step farther than Dr. Shaw. To survive we must apply
systems ecology to the entire ecosystem, including, and especially, the
population of man. I welcome Shaw's decision. Now when the engineers,
agricultural economists, businessmen, popes, and everyone else come
to recognize these facts, world leaders can sit down with the ecologists
and work out a plan for survival. By that time, of course, it will be too
late.
Many ecologists think it is already too late, that vertebrate life
will disappear within the next 20 years or so. The extinction of many
life forms now taking place will have dire consequences. A fundamental
theorem in ecology is that the more complex the ecosystem the more
stable. The simpler the system, the more drastic the population fluctua-tions
among its members. Drastic fluctuations lead to habitat destruction
and extinction of additional species. A fine example is the starfish that
is eating the coral reefs in the South Pacific from Australia to Hawaii.
Such ecocatastrophes will become ever more common in the future.
An ecologist friend once told me he thinks God will survive as a
monarch butterfly, certainly a lovely creature as compared to man. But
the butterflies are nearly gone now. Remember before 1945 when
every flower garden had tiger swallowtails, black swallowtails, fritil-laries,
monarchs and half dozen other species? Seen any of these lately?
Only little white cabbage butterflies remain common. I am betting on
the blue green algae.
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Student Senate begins annual budget juggling game
continued from page 1
a profitable venture as well as
.. maintaining one of the cam-puses
main social functions. Home-coming
also means a great deal
to the athletic program on campus.
We would like to work with the
Alumni Office and the Presidents
Office in planning the future
homecomings so as to co-ordinate
all activities as well as to upgrade
them."
This committee also pointed out
the statement from the Alumni
Council Meeting minutes which
read, "It was agreed that Home-coming
is essentially a college
function and should emphasize the
college and its alumni."
Both committees would like to
expand the Athletic Committee to
assure the Soccor team some fin-ancial
backing. "We feel that this
is justified by the great potential
this sport has as a Bethel specta-tor
sport . . ." read the report of
the committees.
By combining some of the com-mittees
both reports indicate they
feel personnel will be easier to
find and the money will be more
wisely spent. They also feel that
some unnecessary overlapping is
being done under the present
structure.
Both reports will be presented
to the Senate meeting on Wednes-day
evening for same action and
discussion.
Chapel on 'Drug Problem' stresses education need
Friday morning Richard Bragg,
who is a special assistant to the
governor of Minnesota on Drug
Abuse and Youth Environment
spoke in chapel on the Drug
Problem Problem.
Bragg discussed the sociological
views on drugs, drug use, and
misconceptions that adults have
about drugs. A few of those pop-ular
misconceptions that we have
are that all drug users are bad
people, and that all drug users
are kids. Bragg pointed out that
kids using drugs aren't the tradi-tionally
"bad," but that many
come from suburban homes. It was
pointed out the biggest drug users
in fact are adults. According to
Bragg we live in a drug oriented
society.
The main thrust of the speak-er's
comment was not the drugs
themselves, but the various atti-tudes
and misunderstandings that
society has about them. Parents
demand drug education for their
children — which to them is
that drugs are a "no-no."
The parents themselves, howev-er,
are the largest group of abus-ers.
Their kids could probably give
them education on drugs since they
are generally far more knowledge-able
on the subject. One of the
drugs that adults, according to
Bragg, abuse is alcohol. They know
the results of its usage, yet con-tinue
to use it. They then tend to
scream for blood when they find
kids experimenting with "drugs,"
failing to realize that they ingest
more drugs than the kids ever
thought about. They have pep pills,
tranquilizers, diet pills, sleeping
pills, aspirin, vitamin pills to name
a few. Parents can't understand
how kids go into drugs, when they
need go no further than them-selves
to find the example that
the kids have.
Bragg summed up his talk by
giving his personal testimony
which was a challenge to the stu-dents
as Christians to love the
total man and not just his soul.
We must demonstrate our love,
not talk it, he said.
In sampling student reaction
about the speaker afterward, most
students were favorably impres-sed.
A faculty member felt that
Bragg presented a "balanced
view." One freshman felt that "he
was not trying to judge or change
anyone's opinion but was giving
his personal view." Another felt
that "he didn't offer any solution
or challenge to the students."
The only answer that Bragg did
present was his personal testimony
that Christ is the answer, and
along with it the challenge to
each individual to take it or leave
it.
All contribute to pollution
continued from page 2
be significantly different.
The people in Seattle will be
doing something about the SST.
The people in Anchorage will be
doing something about the pipe-line,
and the people in Santa Bar-bara
will again be attempting to do
something about the oil. Precisely
what the nature of any of these
demonstrations will be at the mom-ent
most of them are in a fairly
embryonic form.
There are some concrete plans
to stop the traffic in some major
metropolitan areas. There will be
gatherings up of garbage for de-posit
on state capitols and in
front of major polluting indus-tries.
There will be pickets. There
will be informational leaflet dis-tribution.
There will be community
canvassing, and in some areas of
the country, where there simply
hasn't been much political involve-ment
at all in the past, I suspect
there will simply be meetings of
students with various people who
have some knowledge of the en-vironmental
crisis for an exchange
of information, hopefully with a
great many critical questions a-rising
in the audience.
CPS: You have 12 people on the
payroll at the National office, with
salaries ranging from $85 to $125
a week. Where's the money coming
from?
HAYES: We have a wide range
of contributions, totaling over
$50,000. The bulk of the money
we've received has come from
advertisements which we placed
in major metropolitan newspapers,
ranging from the New York Times
to the Rocky Mountain News. We
also have contributions from six
foundations and a few thousand
dollars from some wealthy indi-viduals.
None of our individual
contributions amount to more than
about $2500. We've received no
money whatsoever from any gov-ernmental
sources or from any in-dustries.
CPS: What foundations have
given you money?
HAYES: We've received contri-butions
from the Conservation
Foundation, the Damroth Founda-tion,
the American Conservation
Association, the Irwin-Sweeny-
Miller Foundation, the National
Audubon Society, and the Deer-dield
Foundation.
CPS: We've been offered money
by some major industries, includ-ing
some of the people who are
most responsible for some aspects
of the environmental crisis. We've
been turning down any grants
which looked like they might in
any way have the appearance of
compromising our position. We
don't accept money from anybody
with an strings attached. Among
the people we've turned down of-fers
are the Mobil Oil Company
and the Ford Motor Corporation.
Both of these offers were tenta-tive,
but I think it was fairly
clear we could have gotten the
money if we had been desirous of
it.
CPS: Do you think industry is
mainly responsible for the ecolog-ical
crisis?
HAYES: There are an awful lot
of contributions being made to the
crisis of the environment. Some
of them are greater than others.
In terms of such things as air
pollution, you can in some sense
say that anyone who is driving
his automobile is in some way
responsible for it. But that doesn't
make an awful lot of sense when
you start looking at the forces
that are at play in terms of devel-oping
the automobile — bil-lions
of dollars invested in Det-roit,
billions of dollars at the pet-roleum
industry, the utilization of
advertising, the impact on the
media of the automobile, the whole
fact that woven into the American
ethic is the concept of our highest
form of grandeur being found in
the coat of arms of a new Cadillac.
A great many industrial polluters
are the people in a given area who
are making the primary contribu-tion
to environmental degradation.
That's pretty much unquestionable.
The ultimate responsibility for
this can be seen as lying in a
whole set of social values, a soc-ial
ethic which we're simply going
to have to be changing as a soci-ety.
Once changed, we'll require
some enormous changes in our
institutions for economic product-ivity
as well as our institutions of
government.
CPS: Some radicals have criti-cized
the teach-in for not connect-ing
such issues as Vietnam to the
ecological crisis.
HAYES It's impossible not to
have Vietnam connected with the
ecological crisis, even as it's im-possible
to separate racism or any
of the other major social woes of
age, including imperialism. They
are all part of a basic whole. The
teach-in has been addressing it-self
to these things at every pos-sible
opportunity. We've done ev-erything
that we can to begin to
integrate these things into a whole-istic
approach. This is reviewed by
everyone in the teach-in staff as
being absolutely crucial. Piecemeal
reforms are desireable to the ex-tent
they can make life a little
bit better for any given group of
individuals, but basically what
we're fighting for is a total reeval-uation
of what we call progress,
the American Way of Life.
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Nationally prominent figures in
the battle for racial justice will
visit the College of St. Thomas
next week to participate in a four
day "Black Symposium," beginn-ing
Monday, March 16.
Sponsored by the faculty-stu-dent
Human Relations Committee,
the symposium will introduce
Floyd 'B. McKissick, national dir-ector,
Congress of Racial Equality,
and Dr. Marcus S. McBroom, exec-utive
vice president, People Pro-grams,
Inc., among local area spec-ialists
in racial problems.
All symposium meetings are free
to the public and, except where
specified, will be in Murray Hall
Lounge on the St. Thomas campus.
Following an opening musical con-cert
by "the Sound Merchants"
Monday night in Murray Hall
Lounge, the program will include:
Tuesday, March 17 — 11:30 a.m.,
"The Morrill Hall Incident", Hor-ace
Huntly and Rosemary Free-man,
University of Minnesota stu-dents;
3 p.m., "Black History —
A Survey", by Allen H. Spear,
associate Professor of, History
University of Minnesota; 6 p.m.,
a film, "One Potato, Two Potato";
8 p.m., "The Relation of Culture
and Politics to the Ethnic Groups
of America", by Mrs. Katie Mc-
Watt; 6:30 p.m., film, "Up Tight;"
8 p.m., address by Mr. McKissick,
subject to be announced.
Thursday, March 19 — 10:25
a.m., "The Psychopathology of Eth-nic
Hate," by Dr. McBroom; 1 p.m.,
open meeting at St. Catherine's,
Dr. McBroom in charge; 2 p.m.,
"The Psychology of Prejudice,"
panel discussion: Dr. Frederick
Chester Oden, Jr., director, "Pro-ject
Discovery" and Mr. Tadeusz
Gierymski, Phychology Depart-ment,
all of the College of St.
Thomas, participating: 6 p.m., film,
"Nothing But a Man;" 8 p.m.,
Wrap-up discussion, Dr. McBroom
presiding.
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Operation of computer data bank will provide
instantaneous information on political activities
WASHINGTON - (CPS) - The
U.S. Army will soon put in oper-ation
a computerized data bank
that will be capable of providing
the FBI, CIA, Secret Service and
Army, Navy and Air Force com-mands
across the U.S. with instan-taneous
information on past and
present civilian political activity
of all kinds, from antiwar speeches
to campus demonstrations.
According to Christopher H.
Pyle, a former captain in Army
Intelligence who wrote an article
in the Washington Monthly, the
contents of the data bank will be
taken from FBI and state and
municipal police records, com-munity
and campus newspapers
and reports compiled by nearly
1,000 plainclothes investigators
working out of some 300 offices
coast to coast.
Pyle said the team of investiga-tors
has been maintained by the
Army since 1965. They were
brought into being to provide ear-ly
warning of civil disorders in
which the Army might be asked
to intervene, but since 1967 they
have been involved in observing
and recording any anti-establish-ment
political activity. They have
been aided by military undercover
agents who have posed as press
photographers, antiwar demon-strators
and as college students.
The investigators' reports are dis-tributed
via a nationwide teletype
system.
Today, Pyle said, the Army
keeps files on the membership,
ideology, programs and practices
of almost every political group in
the country, including radical or-ganizations
like the Revolutionary
Action Movement (RAM) and non-violent
ones like the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
ACLU and NAACP. Utilizing the
files, the Army periodically pub-lishes
a "blacklist" of people and
organizations who, in the opinion
of Intelligence Command officials,
might cause trouble for the Army.
The files are maintained at the
Investigative Records Repository
at Ft. Holabird in Baltimore, where
the computerized data bank will
be installed. According to Pyle,
material fed into the computer will
fall into two general categories:
"incident reports" concerning
bombings, disorders and demon-strations,
and "personality re-ports"
concerning the lawful and
unlawful political activity of civ-ilians.
Some of the information will be
gathered 'by civilian spies. Pyle
said that when Columbia Univer-sity
gave students the option of
closing their academic records to
inspection by government invest-igators,
the 108th Military Intel-ligence
Group in Manhattan per-suaded
an employee of the regis-trar's
office to leak information
to them.
The information will also be
available to the National Security
Agency, Civil Service Commission,
Atomic Energy Commission, Pass-port
Office and Defense Intelli-gence
Agency.
Pyle said one reason for keep-ing
track of civilian political act-ivity,
specified in counter-insurg-ency
manuals, is to facilitate the
arrest of counter-insurgents and
guerrillas. He said soldiers and
civilian employees of the Army
with foreign-born spouses are cur-rently
barred from jobs requiring
access to sensitive intelligence,
and this raises questions as to the
ability of Army intelligence to use
its information intelligently.
In light of revelations about the
CIA's financing of student groups,
labor unions and foundations, and
illegal wiretapping by the FBI and
Internal Revenue Service, Pyle
said, that is reason to believe the
impending addition of computer-ized
data bank to the Army's civ-ilian-
watching apparatus will thre-aten
individual liberties.
Jerry Hall, a junior at Beth-el
College, became Marine of
the year when selected as the
recipient of the Commandant's
Trophy.
Jerrold H. Hall
receives trophy
by Cindy Rostollan
General Lenard F. Chapman
Jr., Commandant of the U.S. Mar-ine
Corps, has announced the se-lection
of Jerrold R. Hall as re-cipient
of the Commandant's Tro-phy.
This award is annually made
to the most outstanding Marine
undergoing pre - commissioning
training (OCS) at the Marine Corp
officer training base at Quantico,
Virginia.
A junior from Traverse City,
Michigan, Hall is planning a ca-reer
in the Marine Corps, and
is currently working on a degree
in philosophy with a minor in
history. He attended the U.S. Na-val
Academy and has received an
A.A. degree from Northwestern
Michigan College.
How is the Marine training dif-ferent
from the regular college
career? Hall says, "With the Ma-rines
it is much more disciplined,
and the authority there concerns
superiors and subordinates, rather
than students and the administra-tors."
There are many reasons one
can give to choose a given career;
Hall is very definite about his
reasons, and rightly so. "I chose
a military career because I guess
I'm kind of a super patriot. I feel
that there are three things you
can do if you want to make a
career of this. 1. You can go into
something like economics, 2. you
can enter politics, which I felt
I couldn't do, because for the
greater part, politicians and poli-tics
tend to be unprincipled, or
3. you can enter the military ser-vice,
which I chose. I'm a disci-plined
person, so this is right for
me."
Being awarded the Command-ant's
Trophy, (Marine of the Year),
Hall was judged on the basis of
excellence in academic and physi-cal
performance, as well as rated
on leadership demonstration.
(Those taking part in this compe-tition
were young men all in of-ficers
training in Virginia.)
So, Hall will graduate with a
B.A. in Philosophy from Bethel
College, but what comes next for
him? "I plan on being involved
in the armored division, in the
Marines (of course)." How long
a hitch does he plan on serving?
"Oh, I figure about 30 years."
That is a long time, but if he
can keep up to the present stan-dards
he's setting, there is no
doubt that he'll make those 30
years. For those who care to know
what it takes to become Marine
of the Year, "Well, out of the
100 percent scale we were graded
on, I got 95.6 percent." Whew!
Two more words . . . Good Show!
The Bo Conrad Spit Band, "a group of rugged individuals," will "jug-in" at a Campus Crusade Rally in Platteville, Wisconsin,
Saturday night.
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Friday, March 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 5
by Steve Duininck
I work in a high school lavatory. One of those nice new ones with
the white porcelain sinks, yellow to white smooth brick tiles, acoustical
porphyritic ceiling, and topped off with a mirror of water spots and
grease.
As I look around, like a mouse peeking out of his hole, the walls
seem to reflect back at me the problem of self-entertainment. Without
fully realizing what is happening my mouth falls open like a busted
drawbridge and something resembling the sounds of Elvis Presly,
Tiny Tim, Leonard Cohen, and Gabby Hayes falls out.
I am thankful for two things in this world. One is that we are
born with an imagination and the other is music. Since mental pictures
are formed from both, they are closely related. But there is more than
just a picture or image in music, especially the music from my "office."
It's used in offense against the protruding dumbness of the smooth
bare walls. I push it through my flapping lips with power that could
shake Carnegie Hall and tone that could substitute as sandpaper. But
it's not the quality of the music or its fundamentalistic perfection, rather
the escape from environmental to inner.
Recently I found myself flooded with situational stalemates about
to fall apart, when a simple melody from the channels of WBCS lifted
me from the whirlpool. It didn't last long, only long enough to give
me the ray of knowledge that there is something better than meets the
eye in this everyday hum-drum.
Someone coined the phrase, "carrying a tune," and that is exactly
what I put in my bucket every day to chew on and digest when my brain
starts flying like a punctured balloon. At work it pulls me through
every day. In the evening it puts me to sleep. In the morning it lifts
me up.
I often wonder if other people experience it as much, till I hear
the sounds coming from the lips of fellow students. That makes me sing
all the more, "Sound so sweet, its hard to beat. Any kind of music
certainly is a treat to me."
Top musicians
will perform at
Honors Concert
Bethel's top musicians will be
presented in concert at 8 next
Friday night at the first annual
Honors Recital.
The recital, sponsored by the
Music department, and held at
Trinity Baptist Church, will give
the general public, Bethel students,
and faculty a chance to hear some
of the college's top performers.
It also gives the music students
participating a chance to increase
their performing experience.
The music majors participating
in the program were voted upon
by the music faculty as some of
the better performers of the year.
They are:
Jane Ahlquist soprano
Julie Amelsburg alto
Barb Atkins piano
Marilee Benson alto
Linda Davis soprano
Gail Klemetti
flute
Lois Lehman soprano
Bev Pearson piano
Lynette Port soprano
Dave Skurdahl
tenor
Joanne Smith soprano
Dave Waite tenor
Leah Wilke piano
Music selections range from Ba-roque
to Modern. Most of the stu-dents
performing are also working
on their senior recitals.
There is a reception following
the concert. A bus will leave from
the parking lot at 7:30 to provide
transportation for students inte-rested
in attending the concert.
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(CPS)—Weapons for Conterin-surgency,
a publication of the A-merican
Friends Service Commit-tee,
is must reading for political
activists. For two reasons:
(1) It provides a focus for pro-test
against American militarism
by listing the names and addresses
of nine military bases, 50 colleges
and hundreds of corporations in
the U.S. that are currently re-searching,
producing or testing in-cendiary,
anti-personnel or chem-ical-
biological weapons.
(2) It serves as a warning to the
Movement. As anti-establishment
activity grows more militant, it is
realistic to expect that radicals,
who have until now suffered in-juries
primarily from gas, clubs
and Mace will be increasingly sub-ject
to assaults involving more
sophisticated arms. This book de-scribes
in grisly detail the weapons
currently stocked by the U.S. for
use against insurgents. Many have
already been used in Vietnam.
Anti-personnel weapons "ideal-ly"
are intended to damage people,
not property, and to maim people,
not kill them. The military ratio-nale
behind this, according to Wea-pons
for Counterinsurgency, is
by Chris Nelson
Two extremely challenging plays
are being performed by Bethel
College and Seminary students.
The plays, A Day in the Life of
Ottoman, written and directed by
Stephen Brachlow, and The Com-fortable
Pew by Don Dickens, are
two challenges to contemporary
Christians to make them realize
their raison d' etre (reason to be).
A Day in the Life of Ottoman
is a startling play for many Chris-tians,
as the surrealistic theatre
confronts its audience with a sym-bolic
expression of life. Songs
from the Creme, Beatles, and Don-ovan
run almost continually
throughout the play with kaleide-
Jug Band hits the bigtime,
Platteville, Wisconsin, 7:30 Sat.
night at Platteville State Univer-sity.
They are "jugging in" at a
Campus Crusade for Christ rally.
"Our group of individuals —
rugged individuals —is held to-gether
only by our love for S and
B (Spit and Band) music," said Bo,
the leader of the Spit Band. "Our
music will always remain pure—
we will not go electric. Pure spit
forever!"
The band will be performing
that (1) a wounded man requires
6-10 people, supplies and facilities
to care for him, diverting manpow-er
and material goods that could
have been used directly in the en-emy
war effort, and (2) sufferings
of badly wounded men tend to
have a greater demoralizing effect
on the remaining population than
the dead.
Of all the incendiary weapons
developed by the U.S., napalm has
received the most attention. Dow
Chemical Company, one producer
of napalm, has been the target of
student protests at many campuses.
The book chronicles the history of
napalm, from the forties when Dr.
Louis Feiser of Harvard University
invented it, to the sixties, which
saw extensive use of the substance
in Vietnam.
Napalm, the book says, has two
effects: asphysxiation (caused by
incomplete combustion which pro-duces
carbon monoxide), and burns,
which are likely to be deep and
extensive. A Vietnamese victim of
napalm is shown in a - photo-graph.
His skin looks like the
crisp, charred surface of a burnt
marshmallow. The book quotes the
inventor as saying: "I distinguish
between developing a munition
of some kind and using it . . .
scopes, strobes, and candles as
lighting for the play.
Brachlow says that he hopes
to show that we as Christians must
sense the reality of chaos in the
world and within the Christian
lives too. However, the Christian
finds his stability and real mean-ing
out of this chase by the reality
of a living Christ in his life.
The Comfortable Pew is a semi-narian's
reaction to the church he
has seen in his age. Dickens wrote
the play to reveal the hypocrisy
and unawareness of the church as
a true function for people. Vari-ous
sketches revolve about the ex-periences
in one church in which,
in the lonely pew of self-contem-plation,
some people finally realize
some of their recently composed
works: "Dust Off Those Instru-ments",
featuring a washboard
solo by Bo, composed by H. C.
Conrad and R. M. Steward, "Leav-ing
in the Morning", a tale about
a young knave who is leaving his
loved one and hitchhiking out of
her life forever, composed by H.
C. Conrad and R. M. Steward.
"Blues in F" is an improvisation
lasting from 25 to 45 minutes.
(Says Bo about the number, "Some-it's
not my business to deal with
the political or moral problems."
The case history of a protest
against Honeywell, Inc., a contrac-tor
for counterinsurgency weapons
is reproduced as sort of an educa-tional
primer for those interested
in striking at corporate involve-ment
in death and destruction.
Located in Minneapolis, Honeywell
makes fragmentation bombs the
size of baseballs containing about
250 steel pellets embedded in a
metal casing.
The bombs do not damage build-ings
but explode on impact sending
a shower of deadly pellets in all
directions. 'The pellets have caused
many deaths among the civilian
population in Vietnam: especially
among women and children.
A group of Movement people
formed the "Honeywell Project,"
discovered that the company rank-ed
20th nationally as a war con-tractor,
researched the company's
officers and found out that they
were extensively involved in other
ways with the military-industrial
complex, and launched a commu-nity
education program.
The project argued that the com-pany
was an accomplice to war
crimes and therefore guilty under
that there needs to be reform.
Jerry Sather, college senior, di-rects
the cast.
The two plays will be presented
together on the nights of March
20, 21, and 22. The tickets are
$1 for singles and $1.50 for coup-les
and may be purchased at the
college ticket office from 11:30-
2:00 on the days of March 16-20
and at the Seminary Bookstore.
Tickets will also be sold at the
door.
The first play starts at 8 p.m.
at the Northwestern Theological
Lutheran Seminary. Transporta-tion
will be provided if it is
needed. More information will be
available through p.o.'s.
times it gets a little too psyche-delic.")
Another new song for the band,
a traditional jug tune, is "Sadie
Green—The Vamp of New Orle-ans."
The finale of the program
will be "Just a Closer Walk With
Thee" featuring Dean Lindberg on
trombone. Some old favorites—
such as "Jug Band Music," "The
Weight," "Will be Fine," "What
a Friend," "Tramp on the Street."
"Blues my Naughty Sweety Gives
to me"—will also be played.
the Nurem'burg charter and that
its products were used for inhuman
purposes. The company responded
that as long as the U.S. government
considered it necessary to be in
Vietnam, it was a matter of "good
citizenship" for Honeywell to con-tinue
to supply U.S. troops there
with good equipment.
The book gives a good account
of the anti-crop, biological and de-foliating
agents available to the
American military, and explains
how counterinsurgency weapons
were developed in bulk during the
years of the Kennedy administra-tion
when military strategists real-ized
guerilla warfare would pose
a threat to U.S. security that nei-ther
nuclear nor conventional wea-pons
could deter.
Prospects for counterinsurgency
disarmament in the near future
are bleak, in the opinion of Wea-pons
for Counterinsurgency, since
the ruling class in this country is
disposed to react in a hostile man-ner
toward movements to usurp
its power, and those movements,
coming from poor and Third World
constituencies, are likely to resort
to guerilla warfare, which can be
waged without the costly build-up
of machinery.
Jug Band travels out of state
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The Column
Cheerleaders look for
bigger things next year
B League
1. 2nd New
2. 3rd Old
3. New Dorm
4. 2nd Old
eededeat Eafttea ekele
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
BASKETBALL RESULTS
Tatlameetata
5. Pit 4 3
6. Faculty 3 4
Won Loss 7. Falcon 2 5
7 0 8. 1st Floor 2 5
6 1 9. 3rd New 1 6
5 2 10. Off Campus 0 7
5 2 Next game Saturday, March 14.
Page 6 the CLARION Friday, March 13, 1970
Totaaotatetea
BASKETBALL RESULTS
A LEAGUE
Won Loss
1. Off Campus 6 1
2. 2nd Old 5 1
3. 1st Floor 5 2
4. 2nd New 5 2
5. Faculty 4 3
6. 3rd New 3 4
7. Pit 3 4
8. Falcon 2 5
9. New Dorm 2 5
10. 3rd Old 0 7
Next games Monday, March 16,
Wednesday, March 18.
Wisconsin
meet next
for Royals
by Rich Zaderaka
Bethel's tracksters will compete
at Menomonie, Wisconsin tomor-row
in an indoor meet against
Stout State and Northland. Coach
Gene Glader feels that although
the Royals are at a definite disad-vantage
in not having facilities
comparable to those of the other
schools, Bethel should make a
respectable showing.
The team results of last week's
meet were St. Olaf 109, Bethel 31,
Southwest 27. Coach Glader re-marked
that "the guys really did
a good job for this early in the
season."
Dave Pound was the only blue
ribbon winner capturing the quar-ter
mile with time of 53.0. The
Royals won the mile relay, but
were disqualified on a technicality.
Phil James took two second
place finishes, in the quarter mile
and 600 yard run. Rick Berggren
and Mark Anderson were the other
second spot placers, in the half
and mile runs respectively. Ander-son
also took third in the half and
fourth in the 600.
Pete Roemer grabbed a pair of
third places in the long jump and
high jump. Dave Sofelt who had
never triple-jumped before, snared
a third in that event with a dis-tance
of 39 feet 2 1/2 inches. Don
Muska had the other third, with a
6.8 timing in the 60 yard dash.
Tom Hendricksen broke the
freshman shot put record with a
toss of 41 feet 3% inches, good for
a fourth. Dan Mogck nabbed a
fouth in the 60 yard high hurdles,
and Jon Landburg had a fourth in
the triple jump to round out the
scoring.
Ski-lection;
old is out,
• •
by Bill Ankerberg
Next year Bethel will again hold
cheerleading tryouts. In the past
two years these tryouts have ap-peared
as merely tokens of an
honest tryout. When only six girls
try out for a proposed six girl
squad there is not much room for
elimination. Both of the present
squads are in favor of a bigger
turnout for cheerleading next year.
They feel that this will help give
confidence to the chosen girls.
This year's varsity squad has
been hit by a barage of negative
criticism, and it may be good to
say something positive for the
girls. It is not always easy for the
girls to provide their own trans-portation
to away games. The var-sity
squad has paid up to $15 to get
to a single away game. While the
J.V. squad inherited last years
varsity uniforms, the varsity girls
each had to pay $40 for their uni-forms.
The girls of both squads would
like to see more audience partici-pation
from the home crowd. Ac-cording
to the girls, too often the
squad feel like they are merely
putting on a show for the audience.
Perhaps more practice may have
helped the varsity squad. The J.V.
squad, has practiced one hour
each week-day since chosen, in an
attempt to develop new cheers,
while refining others. The J.V.
squad has had a noticeable unity
to each of their cheers.
May people criticize, those who
complain the loudest could put
their voices to better use if they
tried out next year. Talk is cheap,
what we need is for some of the
critics to use their voices to build
unity and spirit, not to destroy a
squad.
new is in
The Ski Club met Thursday, Feb.
26, to elect officers for the coming
year. Mark Waller was elected
president, Steve Hamel, vice presi-dent,
Linda Gaasrud, treasurer;
Dawn Barkman, secretary to the
president, and Julie Palen, secre-tary
to the vice president.
The new officers are in charge
of planning next year's ski trips.
Officers hope that there will be
major trips over vacations, and
possibly one large trip during
interim.

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In Chapel on Thursday will be Sister Giovanni, director of
the Guadalupe Area Project. The project attempts to aid
Mexican Americans in preserving and assimilating their
cultural heritage.
Senate posts to be filled,
students vote today to
determine candidates
Committees challenge
traditions and purposes;
seek major revisions
Vol. XLV — No. 20 Bethel College, St. Pau l, Minnesota
If adopted, the budget proposals
being presented to the Senate this
week indicate several m a j or
changes for next year.
Two Senate Special Committees
were established to examine the
budgetary needs of the Bethel Col-lege
Student Association. The re-ports
of the two committees were
presented Wednesday evening for
discussion and action.
One committee report is asking
for the discontinuance of the Spire,
the incorporation of Coeval and
Clarion, the end of homecoming as
a student function, the removal of
the Academic Committee and the
Religious Committee, and placing
the Cultural Committee under the
Social Committee. This committee
composed of A. Dean Pearson,
Linda Sparks, Tom Ford and Don
Dewey, would then like to see the
monies now being spent on these
areas put into the General Fund of
the Association.
The second committee, Karen
Nelson, Jim Carlson, and Wendell
Wahlin, would like to see the ex-pansion
of Homecoming, the in-corporation
of Coeval and Spire
and the combining of the Academic
Committee and the Cultural Com-mittee.
Both of these groups would like
The ballot boxes have once a-gain
been dusted off as the stu-dent
body prepares to elect next
year's president, vice-president and
senators.
Petitions for the offices have
been signed and turned in to
the Election Board. These peti-tions
have been checked by that
Board to be sure the filing candi-rate
has met the requirements as
stated in the election Code. This
code states that 60 signatures must
be obtained by the individual
seeking office, (one petition had
120 signatures instead of this re-quired
number); the petitions must
be in to the committee by the
specified time, (some were in ear-ly);
and the potential candidate
must have a 2.0 grade point av-erage,
(four individuals were eli-minated
from the ballot by this
requirement).
The candidates going into the
primary election today were as
follows:
to see WBCS removed from the
Senate budget.
The first committee reasons that
"the disappearance of the tradi-tional
year book from college and
university campuses is an increas-ing
occurance." They go on to say
in their report that "student in-terest
in the year book is limited
and passing. The Spire serves tra-dition
rather than function."
The second committee would
like to see the budget expanded for
the Spire thus giving them the
necessary funds to work with in
making the yearbook something to
be proud of. Also, by including
the Coeval into the Spire, as this
committee is proposing, "it would
enhance the book to become a col-lection
of good photography and
good literature".
In regard to Homecoming the
first committee r e p or t read,
"Homecoming does not serve a
purpose for the Student Associa-tion.
Homecoming is a program
geared toward Alumni and the re-sponsibility
for the program should
rest entirely with the Alumni Of-fice."
The second committee has pro-posed
an expansion of the Home-coming
weekend so as to make it
continued on page 3
President: Elden John Elseth
John Goodman
Richard Berggren
Vice President: Hugh McLeod
Thomas Ford
Douglas Erickson
Wendell Wahlin
Senator-at-Large: Steve Gabel
(need 2)
Kris McElroy
Byron Warkentien
Gabriel Ofotokun
Class of '71: Sue Neave
(need 1)
Class of '72: Darlene Chaddock
(need 2)
Roderick Mark Steward
Rob Grabenkort
Ronald Wayne Dishinger I
Class of '73: Ron Troxel
(need 3)
Some of these candidates will
be eliminated in the primary elec-tion
held today. The remaining
candidates for President and Vice-
President will be introduced in
Chapel on Wednesday, March 18.
The election will be held on Thurs-day,
March 19.
John D. Goodman
"I believe in Bethel. It's been
good for me to be here. Bethel
needs academic excellence and the
integration of a Christian perspec-tive
into the total educational ex-perience.
Further, Bethel needs
freedom, to dissent, to find ones-self
and to achieve a personal
faith. Let's work to maintain and
build toward these three ideals.
If we overly accent the negative
we might fail to see that some of
the answers lie in the positive
aspects around us.
"Education is cyclic. We re-ceive
proportionately to what we
put in. I believe most Bethel stu-dents
want to put in, to communi-cate,
understand, unify, learn, to
grow in Christ. I want to help us
do it. Basically, I want to put in.
But the beauty of Bethel lies in
its people, not any individual. To-gether
through God's power we
can succeed."
John Goodman
John is a junior from San Jose,
California. He has served on the
Convocation Committee, the So-cial
Committee for 3 years and as
chairman of that Committee this
year, and Vice President for the
Junior Class.
Richard A. Berggren
"If there is anything I have
learned in fourteen years of edu-cational
experience, it is that the
bulk of meaningful learning does
not occur inside the textbook. You
must learn by becoming involved
with people and only when edu-cation
relates to this does it be-come
valuable.
As a candidate for president,
I want this type of involvement.
I run for the office not because
I am perfect but because I need
to improve. I need people, because
people is really what Bethel is all
about.
"Briefly, some of my idealistic
goals for next year include: a
greater emphasis on cultural and
social activities in an effort to
involve more students — the be-ginning
of an athletic scholarship
program — a more equitable sit-uation
between the college and
seminary financial arrangement —
a revision of the structure of the
Student Association — an empha-sis
on "learning through experi-ence"
in curriculum — and most
important, an attempt to mold our
lives into the revolutionary spirit
of Christ."
Elden Elseth
Elden is a junior from Warren,
Minnesota serving in the Senate
this year as a Senator-at-Large.
He has been involved in intercol-legiate
debate and forensics and
served as the Vice-President of
the Student Body at Covenant Bi-ble
College, Prince Albert, Sas-katchewan.
Elden J. Elseth
"In my platform, I am empha-sizing
four areas. Some are of im-mediate
concern and others are
of long range emphasis. But all
are important. First, I stand fully
behind the push for minority re-cruitment
here at Bethel. But still
more must be done. We as students
must rally together as a whole
in demanding that action is taken
by the administration in this area.
We must convince the Administra-tion
that this isn't just a passing
whim of the moment.
"Another area of concern is
New Campus Planning. Construc-tion
on the new campus begins
next spring or the following year.
Final housing plans must be pre-sented
this spring. We as students
must have a voice in the type of
housing that will be available to
the future students of Bethel.
"We also need a revived inter-est
in athletics at Bethel. I be-lieve
that the Bethel athlete is
presently penalized. He is penal-ized
from the standpoint of re-muneration,
not to mention the
facilities. A future goal is athletic
scholarships of which I will take
steps to achieve.
"Finally, we are all aware of
the problem of loneliness that ex-ists
on this campus. Perhaps there
is no lonelier time than during the
week-end. I propose a greater
quantity of "things to do."
"It is for these reasons — an
enlarged push for minority re-cruitment,
a final say in new
campus planning, a revived in-terest
in athletics, and a greater
quantity of "things to do," plus
my valuable experience in leader-ship,
that I am running for the
office of President."
Rick Berggren
Rick is a junior from Lafayette,
California. He served his first two
years at Bethel as class officer
and this past year as Vice Presi-dent
of the Student Association.
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The three candidates, Elden Elseth, John Goodman, and Rick
Berggren, were each asked to write a short statement in answer to the
question, "Why are you running for Student Association President?"
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Federal judge views free student
voice as great social value
from Minnesota Daily
BOSTON — A federal district judge here has ruled that state
colleges and universities cannot censor student newspapers in advance
of publication, even though the state may help to finance them.
The decision could provide a major new weapon for student editors
who are fighting attempts by college administrators and governing
boards to censor their newspapers.
The ruling came in a suit brought by the editor of the Fitchburg
State College Cycle against the institution's president.
After the Cycle published an article by Black Panther leader
Eldrige Cleaver that contained a number of obscenities, President
James J. Hammond withdrew funds in an effort to prevent the paper
from publishing. He appointed an advisory board of two administraters
to review all materials before publication.
Judge Arthur Garity, Jr. said in his opinion:
"The state in not necessarily the unrestrained master of what
it creates and fosters. Having fostered a campus newspaper, the state
may not propose arbitrary restrictions on the matter to be communicated.
"Because of the potentially great social value of a free student
voice in an age of student awareness, it would be inconsistent with
basic assumptions of First Amendment freedoms to permit a campus
newspaper to be simply a vehicle for ideas the state or the college
administration deems appropriate."
Hammond said he was "amazed" at the decision. The state has
not yet decided whether to appeal. Officials of the U.S. Student
Press Association, a national organization of college newspeper editors,
called the decision "a milestone" and said it would be useful to them
in their efforts against censorship on other campuses.
* * *
This law is applicable only to state schools.
Last December the Bethel Seminary's paper, the Diakrisis, printed
opinions pro and con on the issue of premarital sex. President
Lundquist threatened to suspend publication for 60 days.
State schools are answerable only to the general public. They
receive funds through the oblique channels of the government.
Private schools, however, are supported directly (in whatever
small amount monetarily) by a more select public. This fact should
not give the select public the moral right to dictate what students
think or what opinions to hold. An educational institution, despite
who supports it, is still an educational institution, which should mean
that it is a center for independent learning and thinking.
Campus newspapers are for the campus which is an environment,
in spite of all attempts, that is somewhat unique. It is supposed to
be an environment where students learn how to deal with the problems
they will meet in life. A person cannot "deal with" a problem of which
he is ignorant. Outside readers of student publications must keep
this in mind.
Destruction or frustration of the freedom for independent think-ing
and learning destroys the very purpose of education.
WASHINGTON — (CPS) — On series of questions which might
April 22, actions relating to the include what's happening with
ecological crisis will take place at heavy metals in the air, or sulfur
colleges and in communities a- dioxide, or nitrogen dioxide. That
round the nation. Coordinating leads you inevitably into another
these actions is an organization series of questions about what's
called Environmental Teach-In, going into the water. Suddenly it
Inc.,whose executive director is begins to come home to you that
Denis Hayes, 25, a former student these things aren't aberrations,
body president of Stanford Univ- that they aren't mistakes, that
ersity. Hayes first became involved they're sort of a natural outgrowth
in questions of the environment of an entire system of production
in 1962 while working for the Ec- and are part of an entire style of
ology Institute. Since then he has life of western civilization. As
hitch-hiked around the world, wor- the scope and the size of the dis-ked
for the McCarthy campaign, asters grow, more people have be-and
turned in his draft card. come concerned with them, and
Hayes was interviewed at the Col- out of this, with the help of pro-lege
Editors Conference. phets like Barry Commoner and
CPS: What is the nature of the Paul Erlich, has grown the kind of
ecological crisis, and why have awareness that produces ecolog-people
across the country begun ical action.
to mobilize upon it? CPS: How did the April 22
HAYES: I think it's largely a teach-in begin?
function of the fact things are HAYES: The original inception
getting bad and they are getting came from Senator Gaylord Nel-bad
very rapidly. You begin to find son, who mentioned it a couple
out what's happening with one of times in addresses. There was
small part of the environment, quite a volume of mail in response
such as what's happening with to them. He was on the Today
chlorinated hydrocarbons and that Show, which got him about 1000
leads you inevitably into another letters. It seemed to be responding
Reporters Anne Dalton, Ruth Bogle,
Tom Ford, Dave Greener,
Jan Ullberg, Jan Urspringer,
Wibby Smith, Ron Roper
Proofreader Sharon Watson
Circulation Manager Joey Healy
Business Manager Warren Magnuson
Photographer Phil Humbert
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
Sister Giovanni, director of
the Guadalupe Area project
will speak Thursday, March 19
in Chapel.
ebapel goteg
by Pastor Maurice C. Lawson
Prof. Robert Stein will continue
the current Monday series speak-ing
on the theme, "Universal Re-demption."
Students and faculty
of the foreign language depart-ment
will present the Tuesday
chapel, postponed from a week
ago.
On Wednesday the candidates
for office of student government
will deliver their campaign speech-es.
Sister Giovanni, director of the
Guadalupe Project of St. Paul, a
ministry primarily to Mexican-
Americans, will speak on Thurs-day.
Rev. Warren Magnuson, until
recently pastor of the Central Bap-tist
Church and new executive sec-retary
of the Baptist General Con-ference,
will bring the Friday
message.
to a desire on the part of the coun-try
that some kind of recognition
be given to this whole series of
issues of survival. A group of peo-ple
was rapidly assembled, const-ituting
sort of a policy committee
which was basically just a group
which incorporated itself as a tax-exempt
educational foundation.
The steering committee, which has
three students, three professors,
a couple of politicians and a con-servationist
on it, selected me as
the staff director and I quickly
recruited a group of people — ac-quaintances,
environmentalists,
and movement people from all over
the country, and set up an office
in early January.
CPS: What kind of things are
going to happen April 22.
HAYES: Just an enormous range
of things. One of the features of
our organization has been its utter
decentralization. We haven't been
telling anybody any place what is
their key critical environmental is-sue
or how it should best be dealt
with. What we've been doing in-stead
is telling everybody that
things are bad and they're getting
worse. You'd better start looking
around you and find out who's
most messing up the area you're
living in. Out of that, we feel
there'll be coming some good sol-id
ideas for strategies to counter-act
this whole process of environ-mental
degradation. In a place
such as Omaha, the degree of
political sophistication and phil-osophical
sophistication is appre-ciatively
different from a place
like Berkeley, and the types of is-sues
that will be addressed will
continued on page 3
Can vertebrates survive,
or will earth succumb
to the blue green algae?
by Wayne H. Davis
(CPS) — I hold these truths to be self evident. All living things
are created equal and are interdependent upon one another. All flesh
is grass.
Only plants can make food. Man and all other animals are totally
dependent upon the plants which we so casually push aside in pursuit
of the ever greater megalopolis, multiversity and multishoppicenter.
Animals need their oxygen and the plants our carbon dioxide. Both are
dependent upon numerous species of microbes which make amino
acids and vitamins, digest food, fix nitrogen for our use, and return
it to the air when we die. And all are dependent upon the exceedingly
complex ecosystem of producers and consumers, predators and prey,
herbivores and carnivores, and parasites and disease, to provide for
their needs for survival and to control their numbers. Man cannot
survive alone. Nor can he continue to increase his numbers at the
expense of other living things.
But man is arrogant. He refuses to face reality. Four centuries after
Copernicus he still really believes that the earth is the center of the
universe and that God's only concern is with his welfare. A century
after Darwin man still thinks of himself as apart from nature, with a
divine destiny to conquer nature and exploit the other creatures
for his own use. As the ultimate of arrogance he created God in his
own image.
I used to think that God was in the form of a lovely little animal
like the chipmunk. I'm not sure anymore, because I doubt if the chip-munks
will survive. A common topic when ecologists convene today is
whether the earth will be inherited by insects or blue green algae.
When we first said that the survival of man is doubtful people
thought we were joking. Many now realize we were deadly serious. The
theme "Can Man Survive?" has claimed widespread attention within
the past year. Read about the Washington conference on the subject
sponsored by over 100 members of Congress. The solutions proposed
there by senators, scientists and other citizens for controlling popula-tion,
pollution and waste of resources, are more radical than anything
suggested previously. They proposed, among other things, a national
regulatory agency with control over all population, national restriction
on land use, an ombudsman for the environment with power over every
national activity, nationalization of natural resources so they cannot be
exploited by private businessmen, and the elimination of the U.S. De-partment
of Commerce.
Writing on the prospect of survival in the October issue of the Agri-cultural
Institute Review, Dr. Michael Shaw, Dean of Agriculture, Uni-versity
of British Columbia says: "We must heed the ecologists. We must
(apply) systems ecology to management of agricultural production,"
(his emphasis). Translated, this means, among other things, that
chemical warfare on insects must cease.
I'll go one step farther than Dr. Shaw. To survive we must apply
systems ecology to the entire ecosystem, including, and especially, the
population of man. I welcome Shaw's decision. Now when the engineers,
agricultural economists, businessmen, popes, and everyone else come
to recognize these facts, world leaders can sit down with the ecologists
and work out a plan for survival. By that time, of course, it will be too
late.
Many ecologists think it is already too late, that vertebrate life
will disappear within the next 20 years or so. The extinction of many
life forms now taking place will have dire consequences. A fundamental
theorem in ecology is that the more complex the ecosystem the more
stable. The simpler the system, the more drastic the population fluctua-tions
among its members. Drastic fluctuations lead to habitat destruction
and extinction of additional species. A fine example is the starfish that
is eating the coral reefs in the South Pacific from Australia to Hawaii.
Such ecocatastrophes will become ever more common in the future.
An ecologist friend once told me he thinks God will survive as a
monarch butterfly, certainly a lovely creature as compared to man. But
the butterflies are nearly gone now. Remember before 1945 when
every flower garden had tiger swallowtails, black swallowtails, fritil-laries,
monarchs and half dozen other species? Seen any of these lately?
Only little white cabbage butterflies remain common. I am betting on
the blue green algae.
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Student Senate begins annual budget juggling game
continued from page 1
a profitable venture as well as
.. maintaining one of the cam-puses
main social functions. Home-coming
also means a great deal
to the athletic program on campus.
We would like to work with the
Alumni Office and the Presidents
Office in planning the future
homecomings so as to co-ordinate
all activities as well as to upgrade
them."
This committee also pointed out
the statement from the Alumni
Council Meeting minutes which
read, "It was agreed that Home-coming
is essentially a college
function and should emphasize the
college and its alumni."
Both committees would like to
expand the Athletic Committee to
assure the Soccor team some fin-ancial
backing. "We feel that this
is justified by the great potential
this sport has as a Bethel specta-tor
sport . . ." read the report of
the committees.
By combining some of the com-mittees
both reports indicate they
feel personnel will be easier to
find and the money will be more
wisely spent. They also feel that
some unnecessary overlapping is
being done under the present
structure.
Both reports will be presented
to the Senate meeting on Wednes-day
evening for same action and
discussion.
Chapel on 'Drug Problem' stresses education need
Friday morning Richard Bragg,
who is a special assistant to the
governor of Minnesota on Drug
Abuse and Youth Environment
spoke in chapel on the Drug
Problem Problem.
Bragg discussed the sociological
views on drugs, drug use, and
misconceptions that adults have
about drugs. A few of those pop-ular
misconceptions that we have
are that all drug users are bad
people, and that all drug users
are kids. Bragg pointed out that
kids using drugs aren't the tradi-tionally
"bad," but that many
come from suburban homes. It was
pointed out the biggest drug users
in fact are adults. According to
Bragg we live in a drug oriented
society.
The main thrust of the speak-er's
comment was not the drugs
themselves, but the various atti-tudes
and misunderstandings that
society has about them. Parents
demand drug education for their
children — which to them is
that drugs are a "no-no."
The parents themselves, howev-er,
are the largest group of abus-ers.
Their kids could probably give
them education on drugs since they
are generally far more knowledge-able
on the subject. One of the
drugs that adults, according to
Bragg, abuse is alcohol. They know
the results of its usage, yet con-tinue
to use it. They then tend to
scream for blood when they find
kids experimenting with "drugs,"
failing to realize that they ingest
more drugs than the kids ever
thought about. They have pep pills,
tranquilizers, diet pills, sleeping
pills, aspirin, vitamin pills to name
a few. Parents can't understand
how kids go into drugs, when they
need go no further than them-selves
to find the example that
the kids have.
Bragg summed up his talk by
giving his personal testimony
which was a challenge to the stu-dents
as Christians to love the
total man and not just his soul.
We must demonstrate our love,
not talk it, he said.
In sampling student reaction
about the speaker afterward, most
students were favorably impres-sed.
A faculty member felt that
Bragg presented a "balanced
view." One freshman felt that "he
was not trying to judge or change
anyone's opinion but was giving
his personal view." Another felt
that "he didn't offer any solution
or challenge to the students."
The only answer that Bragg did
present was his personal testimony
that Christ is the answer, and
along with it the challenge to
each individual to take it or leave
it.
All contribute to pollution
continued from page 2
be significantly different.
The people in Seattle will be
doing something about the SST.
The people in Anchorage will be
doing something about the pipe-line,
and the people in Santa Bar-bara
will again be attempting to do
something about the oil. Precisely
what the nature of any of these
demonstrations will be at the mom-ent
most of them are in a fairly
embryonic form.
There are some concrete plans
to stop the traffic in some major
metropolitan areas. There will be
gatherings up of garbage for de-posit
on state capitols and in
front of major polluting indus-tries.
There will be pickets. There
will be informational leaflet dis-tribution.
There will be community
canvassing, and in some areas of
the country, where there simply
hasn't been much political involve-ment
at all in the past, I suspect
there will simply be meetings of
students with various people who
have some knowledge of the en-vironmental
crisis for an exchange
of information, hopefully with a
great many critical questions a-rising
in the audience.
CPS: You have 12 people on the
payroll at the National office, with
salaries ranging from $85 to $125
a week. Where's the money coming
from?
HAYES: We have a wide range
of contributions, totaling over
$50,000. The bulk of the money
we've received has come from
advertisements which we placed
in major metropolitan newspapers,
ranging from the New York Times
to the Rocky Mountain News. We
also have contributions from six
foundations and a few thousand
dollars from some wealthy indi-viduals.
None of our individual
contributions amount to more than
about $2500. We've received no
money whatsoever from any gov-ernmental
sources or from any in-dustries.
CPS: What foundations have
given you money?
HAYES: We've received contri-butions
from the Conservation
Foundation, the Damroth Founda-tion,
the American Conservation
Association, the Irwin-Sweeny-
Miller Foundation, the National
Audubon Society, and the Deer-dield
Foundation.
CPS: We've been offered money
by some major industries, includ-ing
some of the people who are
most responsible for some aspects
of the environmental crisis. We've
been turning down any grants
which looked like they might in
any way have the appearance of
compromising our position. We
don't accept money from anybody
with an strings attached. Among
the people we've turned down of-fers
are the Mobil Oil Company
and the Ford Motor Corporation.
Both of these offers were tenta-tive,
but I think it was fairly
clear we could have gotten the
money if we had been desirous of
it.
CPS: Do you think industry is
mainly responsible for the ecolog-ical
crisis?
HAYES: There are an awful lot
of contributions being made to the
crisis of the environment. Some
of them are greater than others.
In terms of such things as air
pollution, you can in some sense
say that anyone who is driving
his automobile is in some way
responsible for it. But that doesn't
make an awful lot of sense when
you start looking at the forces
that are at play in terms of devel-oping
the automobile — bil-lions
of dollars invested in Det-roit,
billions of dollars at the pet-roleum
industry, the utilization of
advertising, the impact on the
media of the automobile, the whole
fact that woven into the American
ethic is the concept of our highest
form of grandeur being found in
the coat of arms of a new Cadillac.
A great many industrial polluters
are the people in a given area who
are making the primary contribu-tion
to environmental degradation.
That's pretty much unquestionable.
The ultimate responsibility for
this can be seen as lying in a
whole set of social values, a soc-ial
ethic which we're simply going
to have to be changing as a soci-ety.
Once changed, we'll require
some enormous changes in our
institutions for economic product-ivity
as well as our institutions of
government.
CPS: Some radicals have criti-cized
the teach-in for not connect-ing
such issues as Vietnam to the
ecological crisis.
HAYES It's impossible not to
have Vietnam connected with the
ecological crisis, even as it's im-possible
to separate racism or any
of the other major social woes of
age, including imperialism. They
are all part of a basic whole. The
teach-in has been addressing it-self
to these things at every pos-sible
opportunity. We've done ev-erything
that we can to begin to
integrate these things into a whole-istic
approach. This is reviewed by
everyone in the teach-in staff as
being absolutely crucial. Piecemeal
reforms are desireable to the ex-tent
they can make life a little
bit better for any given group of
individuals, but basically what
we're fighting for is a total reeval-uation
of what we call progress,
the American Way of Life.
Dave Pound, gives an excel lent example of exercizing
'Crystal Blue Persuasion' in last week's Donkey Basketball
Game.
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St. Thomas has
racial justice
symposium
Nationally prominent figures in
the battle for racial justice will
visit the College of St. Thomas
next week to participate in a four
day "Black Symposium," beginn-ing
Monday, March 16.
Sponsored by the faculty-stu-dent
Human Relations Committee,
the symposium will introduce
Floyd 'B. McKissick, national dir-ector,
Congress of Racial Equality,
and Dr. Marcus S. McBroom, exec-utive
vice president, People Pro-grams,
Inc., among local area spec-ialists
in racial problems.
All symposium meetings are free
to the public and, except where
specified, will be in Murray Hall
Lounge on the St. Thomas campus.
Following an opening musical con-cert
by "the Sound Merchants"
Monday night in Murray Hall
Lounge, the program will include:
Tuesday, March 17 — 11:30 a.m.,
"The Morrill Hall Incident", Hor-ace
Huntly and Rosemary Free-man,
University of Minnesota stu-dents;
3 p.m., "Black History —
A Survey", by Allen H. Spear,
associate Professor of, History
University of Minnesota; 6 p.m.,
a film, "One Potato, Two Potato";
8 p.m., "The Relation of Culture
and Politics to the Ethnic Groups
of America", by Mrs. Katie Mc-
Watt; 6:30 p.m., film, "Up Tight;"
8 p.m., address by Mr. McKissick,
subject to be announced.
Thursday, March 19 — 10:25
a.m., "The Psychopathology of Eth-nic
Hate," by Dr. McBroom; 1 p.m.,
open meeting at St. Catherine's,
Dr. McBroom in charge; 2 p.m.,
"The Psychology of Prejudice,"
panel discussion: Dr. Frederick
Chester Oden, Jr., director, "Pro-ject
Discovery" and Mr. Tadeusz
Gierymski, Phychology Depart-ment,
all of the College of St.
Thomas, participating: 6 p.m., film,
"Nothing But a Man;" 8 p.m.,
Wrap-up discussion, Dr. McBroom
presiding.
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Operation of computer data bank will provide
instantaneous information on political activities
WASHINGTON - (CPS) - The
U.S. Army will soon put in oper-ation
a computerized data bank
that will be capable of providing
the FBI, CIA, Secret Service and
Army, Navy and Air Force com-mands
across the U.S. with instan-taneous
information on past and
present civilian political activity
of all kinds, from antiwar speeches
to campus demonstrations.
According to Christopher H.
Pyle, a former captain in Army
Intelligence who wrote an article
in the Washington Monthly, the
contents of the data bank will be
taken from FBI and state and
municipal police records, com-munity
and campus newspapers
and reports compiled by nearly
1,000 plainclothes investigators
working out of some 300 offices
coast to coast.
Pyle said the team of investiga-tors
has been maintained by the
Army since 1965. They were
brought into being to provide ear-ly
warning of civil disorders in
which the Army might be asked
to intervene, but since 1967 they
have been involved in observing
and recording any anti-establish-ment
political activity. They have
been aided by military undercover
agents who have posed as press
photographers, antiwar demon-strators
and as college students.
The investigators' reports are dis-tributed
via a nationwide teletype
system.
Today, Pyle said, the Army
keeps files on the membership,
ideology, programs and practices
of almost every political group in
the country, including radical or-ganizations
like the Revolutionary
Action Movement (RAM) and non-violent
ones like the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
ACLU and NAACP. Utilizing the
files, the Army periodically pub-lishes
a "blacklist" of people and
organizations who, in the opinion
of Intelligence Command officials,
might cause trouble for the Army.
The files are maintained at the
Investigative Records Repository
at Ft. Holabird in Baltimore, where
the computerized data bank will
be installed. According to Pyle,
material fed into the computer will
fall into two general categories:
"incident reports" concerning
bombings, disorders and demon-strations,
and "personality re-ports"
concerning the lawful and
unlawful political activity of civ-ilians.
Some of the information will be
gathered 'by civilian spies. Pyle
said that when Columbia Univer-sity
gave students the option of
closing their academic records to
inspection by government invest-igators,
the 108th Military Intel-ligence
Group in Manhattan per-suaded
an employee of the regis-trar's
office to leak information
to them.
The information will also be
available to the National Security
Agency, Civil Service Commission,
Atomic Energy Commission, Pass-port
Office and Defense Intelli-gence
Agency.
Pyle said one reason for keep-ing
track of civilian political act-ivity,
specified in counter-insurg-ency
manuals, is to facilitate the
arrest of counter-insurgents and
guerrillas. He said soldiers and
civilian employees of the Army
with foreign-born spouses are cur-rently
barred from jobs requiring
access to sensitive intelligence,
and this raises questions as to the
ability of Army intelligence to use
its information intelligently.
In light of revelations about the
CIA's financing of student groups,
labor unions and foundations, and
illegal wiretapping by the FBI and
Internal Revenue Service, Pyle
said, that is reason to believe the
impending addition of computer-ized
data bank to the Army's civ-ilian-
watching apparatus will thre-aten
individual liberties.
Jerry Hall, a junior at Beth-el
College, became Marine of
the year when selected as the
recipient of the Commandant's
Trophy.
Jerrold H. Hall
receives trophy
by Cindy Rostollan
General Lenard F. Chapman
Jr., Commandant of the U.S. Mar-ine
Corps, has announced the se-lection
of Jerrold R. Hall as re-cipient
of the Commandant's Tro-phy.
This award is annually made
to the most outstanding Marine
undergoing pre - commissioning
training (OCS) at the Marine Corp
officer training base at Quantico,
Virginia.
A junior from Traverse City,
Michigan, Hall is planning a ca-reer
in the Marine Corps, and
is currently working on a degree
in philosophy with a minor in
history. He attended the U.S. Na-val
Academy and has received an
A.A. degree from Northwestern
Michigan College.
How is the Marine training dif-ferent
from the regular college
career? Hall says, "With the Ma-rines
it is much more disciplined,
and the authority there concerns
superiors and subordinates, rather
than students and the administra-tors."
There are many reasons one
can give to choose a given career;
Hall is very definite about his
reasons, and rightly so. "I chose
a military career because I guess
I'm kind of a super patriot. I feel
that there are three things you
can do if you want to make a
career of this. 1. You can go into
something like economics, 2. you
can enter politics, which I felt
I couldn't do, because for the
greater part, politicians and poli-tics
tend to be unprincipled, or
3. you can enter the military ser-vice,
which I chose. I'm a disci-plined
person, so this is right for
me."
Being awarded the Command-ant's
Trophy, (Marine of the Year),
Hall was judged on the basis of
excellence in academic and physi-cal
performance, as well as rated
on leadership demonstration.
(Those taking part in this compe-tition
were young men all in of-ficers
training in Virginia.)
So, Hall will graduate with a
B.A. in Philosophy from Bethel
College, but what comes next for
him? "I plan on being involved
in the armored division, in the
Marines (of course)." How long
a hitch does he plan on serving?
"Oh, I figure about 30 years."
That is a long time, but if he
can keep up to the present stan-dards
he's setting, there is no
doubt that he'll make those 30
years. For those who care to know
what it takes to become Marine
of the Year, "Well, out of the
100 percent scale we were graded
on, I got 95.6 percent." Whew!
Two more words . . . Good Show!
The Bo Conrad Spit Band, "a group of rugged individuals," will "jug-in" at a Campus Crusade Rally in Platteville, Wisconsin,
Saturday night.
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Friday, March 13, 1970 the CLARION Page 5
by Steve Duininck
I work in a high school lavatory. One of those nice new ones with
the white porcelain sinks, yellow to white smooth brick tiles, acoustical
porphyritic ceiling, and topped off with a mirror of water spots and
grease.
As I look around, like a mouse peeking out of his hole, the walls
seem to reflect back at me the problem of self-entertainment. Without
fully realizing what is happening my mouth falls open like a busted
drawbridge and something resembling the sounds of Elvis Presly,
Tiny Tim, Leonard Cohen, and Gabby Hayes falls out.
I am thankful for two things in this world. One is that we are
born with an imagination and the other is music. Since mental pictures
are formed from both, they are closely related. But there is more than
just a picture or image in music, especially the music from my "office."
It's used in offense against the protruding dumbness of the smooth
bare walls. I push it through my flapping lips with power that could
shake Carnegie Hall and tone that could substitute as sandpaper. But
it's not the quality of the music or its fundamentalistic perfection, rather
the escape from environmental to inner.
Recently I found myself flooded with situational stalemates about
to fall apart, when a simple melody from the channels of WBCS lifted
me from the whirlpool. It didn't last long, only long enough to give
me the ray of knowledge that there is something better than meets the
eye in this everyday hum-drum.
Someone coined the phrase, "carrying a tune," and that is exactly
what I put in my bucket every day to chew on and digest when my brain
starts flying like a punctured balloon. At work it pulls me through
every day. In the evening it puts me to sleep. In the morning it lifts
me up.
I often wonder if other people experience it as much, till I hear
the sounds coming from the lips of fellow students. That makes me sing
all the more, "Sound so sweet, its hard to beat. Any kind of music
certainly is a treat to me."
Top musicians
will perform at
Honors Concert
Bethel's top musicians will be
presented in concert at 8 next
Friday night at the first annual
Honors Recital.
The recital, sponsored by the
Music department, and held at
Trinity Baptist Church, will give
the general public, Bethel students,
and faculty a chance to hear some
of the college's top performers.
It also gives the music students
participating a chance to increase
their performing experience.
The music majors participating
in the program were voted upon
by the music faculty as some of
the better performers of the year.
They are:
Jane Ahlquist soprano
Julie Amelsburg alto
Barb Atkins piano
Marilee Benson alto
Linda Davis soprano
Gail Klemetti
flute
Lois Lehman soprano
Bev Pearson piano
Lynette Port soprano
Dave Skurdahl
tenor
Joanne Smith soprano
Dave Waite tenor
Leah Wilke piano
Music selections range from Ba-roque
to Modern. Most of the stu-dents
performing are also working
on their senior recitals.
There is a reception following
the concert. A bus will leave from
the parking lot at 7:30 to provide
transportation for students inte-rested
in attending the concert.
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(CPS)—Weapons for Conterin-surgency,
a publication of the A-merican
Friends Service Commit-tee,
is must reading for political
activists. For two reasons:
(1) It provides a focus for pro-test
against American militarism
by listing the names and addresses
of nine military bases, 50 colleges
and hundreds of corporations in
the U.S. that are currently re-searching,
producing or testing in-cendiary,
anti-personnel or chem-ical-
biological weapons.
(2) It serves as a warning to the
Movement. As anti-establishment
activity grows more militant, it is
realistic to expect that radicals,
who have until now suffered in-juries
primarily from gas, clubs
and Mace will be increasingly sub-ject
to assaults involving more
sophisticated arms. This book de-scribes
in grisly detail the weapons
currently stocked by the U.S. for
use against insurgents. Many have
already been used in Vietnam.
Anti-personnel weapons "ideal-ly"
are intended to damage people,
not property, and to maim people,
not kill them. The military ratio-nale
behind this, according to Wea-pons
for Counterinsurgency, is
by Chris Nelson
Two extremely challenging plays
are being performed by Bethel
College and Seminary students.
The plays, A Day in the Life of
Ottoman, written and directed by
Stephen Brachlow, and The Com-fortable
Pew by Don Dickens, are
two challenges to contemporary
Christians to make them realize
their raison d' etre (reason to be).
A Day in the Life of Ottoman
is a startling play for many Chris-tians,
as the surrealistic theatre
confronts its audience with a sym-bolic
expression of life. Songs
from the Creme, Beatles, and Don-ovan
run almost continually
throughout the play with kaleide-
Jug Band hits the bigtime,
Platteville, Wisconsin, 7:30 Sat.
night at Platteville State Univer-sity.
They are "jugging in" at a
Campus Crusade for Christ rally.
"Our group of individuals —
rugged individuals —is held to-gether
only by our love for S and
B (Spit and Band) music," said Bo,
the leader of the Spit Band. "Our
music will always remain pure—
we will not go electric. Pure spit
forever!"
The band will be performing
that (1) a wounded man requires
6-10 people, supplies and facilities
to care for him, diverting manpow-er
and material goods that could
have been used directly in the en-emy
war effort, and (2) sufferings
of badly wounded men tend to
have a greater demoralizing effect
on the remaining population than
the dead.
Of all the incendiary weapons
developed by the U.S., napalm has
received the most attention. Dow
Chemical Company, one producer
of napalm, has been the target of
student protests at many campuses.
The book chronicles the history of
napalm, from the forties when Dr.
Louis Feiser of Harvard University
invented it, to the sixties, which
saw extensive use of the substance
in Vietnam.
Napalm, the book says, has two
effects: asphysxiation (caused by
incomplete combustion which pro-duces
carbon monoxide), and burns,
which are likely to be deep and
extensive. A Vietnamese victim of
napalm is shown in a - photo-graph.
His skin looks like the
crisp, charred surface of a burnt
marshmallow. The book quotes the
inventor as saying: "I distinguish
between developing a munition
of some kind and using it . . .
scopes, strobes, and candles as
lighting for the play.
Brachlow says that he hopes
to show that we as Christians must
sense the reality of chaos in the
world and within the Christian
lives too. However, the Christian
finds his stability and real mean-ing
out of this chase by the reality
of a living Christ in his life.
The Comfortable Pew is a semi-narian's
reaction to the church he
has seen in his age. Dickens wrote
the play to reveal the hypocrisy
and unawareness of the church as
a true function for people. Vari-ous
sketches revolve about the ex-periences
in one church in which,
in the lonely pew of self-contem-plation,
some people finally realize
some of their recently composed
works: "Dust Off Those Instru-ments",
featuring a washboard
solo by Bo, composed by H. C.
Conrad and R. M. Steward, "Leav-ing
in the Morning", a tale about
a young knave who is leaving his
loved one and hitchhiking out of
her life forever, composed by H.
C. Conrad and R. M. Steward.
"Blues in F" is an improvisation
lasting from 25 to 45 minutes.
(Says Bo about the number, "Some-it's
not my business to deal with
the political or moral problems."
The case history of a protest
against Honeywell, Inc., a contrac-tor
for counterinsurgency weapons
is reproduced as sort of an educa-tional
primer for those interested
in striking at corporate involve-ment
in death and destruction.
Located in Minneapolis, Honeywell
makes fragmentation bombs the
size of baseballs containing about
250 steel pellets embedded in a
metal casing.
The bombs do not damage build-ings
but explode on impact sending
a shower of deadly pellets in all
directions. 'The pellets have caused
many deaths among the civilian
population in Vietnam: especially
among women and children.
A group of Movement people
formed the "Honeywell Project,"
discovered that the company rank-ed
20th nationally as a war con-tractor,
researched the company's
officers and found out that they
were extensively involved in other
ways with the military-industrial
complex, and launched a commu-nity
education program.
The project argued that the com-pany
was an accomplice to war
crimes and therefore guilty under
that there needs to be reform.
Jerry Sather, college senior, di-rects
the cast.
The two plays will be presented
together on the nights of March
20, 21, and 22. The tickets are
$1 for singles and $1.50 for coup-les
and may be purchased at the
college ticket office from 11:30-
2:00 on the days of March 16-20
and at the Seminary Bookstore.
Tickets will also be sold at the
door.
The first play starts at 8 p.m.
at the Northwestern Theological
Lutheran Seminary. Transporta-tion
will be provided if it is
needed. More information will be
available through p.o.'s.
times it gets a little too psyche-delic.")
Another new song for the band,
a traditional jug tune, is "Sadie
Green—The Vamp of New Orle-ans."
The finale of the program
will be "Just a Closer Walk With
Thee" featuring Dean Lindberg on
trombone. Some old favorites—
such as "Jug Band Music," "The
Weight," "Will be Fine," "What
a Friend," "Tramp on the Street."
"Blues my Naughty Sweety Gives
to me"—will also be played.
the Nurem'burg charter and that
its products were used for inhuman
purposes. The company responded
that as long as the U.S. government
considered it necessary to be in
Vietnam, it was a matter of "good
citizenship" for Honeywell to con-tinue
to supply U.S. troops there
with good equipment.
The book gives a good account
of the anti-crop, biological and de-foliating
agents available to the
American military, and explains
how counterinsurgency weapons
were developed in bulk during the
years of the Kennedy administra-tion
when military strategists real-ized
guerilla warfare would pose
a threat to U.S. security that nei-ther
nuclear nor conventional wea-pons
could deter.
Prospects for counterinsurgency
disarmament in the near future
are bleak, in the opinion of Wea-pons
for Counterinsurgency, since
the ruling class in this country is
disposed to react in a hostile man-ner
toward movements to usurp
its power, and those movements,
coming from poor and Third World
constituencies, are likely to resort
to guerilla warfare, which can be
waged without the costly build-up
of machinery.
Jug Band travels out of state
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Cheerleaders look for
bigger things next year
B League
1. 2nd New
2. 3rd Old
3. New Dorm
4. 2nd Old
eededeat Eafttea ekele
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
BASKETBALL RESULTS
Tatlameetata
5. Pit 4 3
6. Faculty 3 4
Won Loss 7. Falcon 2 5
7 0 8. 1st Floor 2 5
6 1 9. 3rd New 1 6
5 2 10. Off Campus 0 7
5 2 Next game Saturday, March 14.
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Totaaotatetea
BASKETBALL RESULTS
A LEAGUE
Won Loss
1. Off Campus 6 1
2. 2nd Old 5 1
3. 1st Floor 5 2
4. 2nd New 5 2
5. Faculty 4 3
6. 3rd New 3 4
7. Pit 3 4
8. Falcon 2 5
9. New Dorm 2 5
10. 3rd Old 0 7
Next games Monday, March 16,
Wednesday, March 18.
Wisconsin
meet next
for Royals
by Rich Zaderaka
Bethel's tracksters will compete
at Menomonie, Wisconsin tomor-row
in an indoor meet against
Stout State and Northland. Coach
Gene Glader feels that although
the Royals are at a definite disad-vantage
in not having facilities
comparable to those of the other
schools, Bethel should make a
respectable showing.
The team results of last week's
meet were St. Olaf 109, Bethel 31,
Southwest 27. Coach Glader re-marked
that "the guys really did
a good job for this early in the
season."
Dave Pound was the only blue
ribbon winner capturing the quar-ter
mile with time of 53.0. The
Royals won the mile relay, but
were disqualified on a technicality.
Phil James took two second
place finishes, in the quarter mile
and 600 yard run. Rick Berggren
and Mark Anderson were the other
second spot placers, in the half
and mile runs respectively. Ander-son
also took third in the half and
fourth in the 600.
Pete Roemer grabbed a pair of
third places in the long jump and
high jump. Dave Sofelt who had
never triple-jumped before, snared
a third in that event with a dis-tance
of 39 feet 2 1/2 inches. Don
Muska had the other third, with a
6.8 timing in the 60 yard dash.
Tom Hendricksen broke the
freshman shot put record with a
toss of 41 feet 3% inches, good for
a fourth. Dan Mogck nabbed a
fouth in the 60 yard high hurdles,
and Jon Landburg had a fourth in
the triple jump to round out the
scoring.
Ski-lection;
old is out,
• •
by Bill Ankerberg
Next year Bethel will again hold
cheerleading tryouts. In the past
two years these tryouts have ap-peared
as merely tokens of an
honest tryout. When only six girls
try out for a proposed six girl
squad there is not much room for
elimination. Both of the present
squads are in favor of a bigger
turnout for cheerleading next year.
They feel that this will help give
confidence to the chosen girls.
This year's varsity squad has
been hit by a barage of negative
criticism, and it may be good to
say something positive for the
girls. It is not always easy for the
girls to provide their own trans-portation
to away games. The var-sity
squad has paid up to $15 to get
to a single away game. While the
J.V. squad inherited last years
varsity uniforms, the varsity girls
each had to pay $40 for their uni-forms.
The girls of both squads would
like to see more audience partici-pation
from the home crowd. Ac-cording
to the girls, too often the
squad feel like they are merely
putting on a show for the audience.
Perhaps more practice may have
helped the varsity squad. The J.V.
squad, has practiced one hour
each week-day since chosen, in an
attempt to develop new cheers,
while refining others. The J.V.
squad has had a noticeable unity
to each of their cheers.
May people criticize, those who
complain the loudest could put
their voices to better use if they
tried out next year. Talk is cheap,
what we need is for some of the
critics to use their voices to build
unity and spirit, not to destroy a
squad.
new is in
The Ski Club met Thursday, Feb.
26, to elect officers for the coming
year. Mark Waller was elected
president, Steve Hamel, vice presi-dent,
Linda Gaasrud, treasurer;
Dawn Barkman, secretary to the
president, and Julie Palen, secre-tary
to the vice president.
The new officers are in charge
of planning next year's ski trips.
Officers hope that there will be
major trips over vacations, and
possibly one large trip during
interim.